Wednesday, October 30, 2013

One year after the destruction, here's what we know about climate change and storms.

by Chris Mooney for Mother Jones

One year ago, when Superstorm Sandy devastated much of New Jersey and
New York City, the event sparked an intense national discussion about
an issue that had gone mysteriously undiscussed
during the presidential campaign: climate change. According to research
by media scholar Max Boykoff of the University of Colorado, there was
actually more media coverage
of climate change in leading US newspapers following Sandy than there
was following the recent release of the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report.

Why? According to NASA researchers, Sandy's particular track made it a 1-in-700-year storm event. It was, to put it mildly, meteorologically suspicious.
So now, with a year's distance and a lot of thought and debate, what
can we say about climate change and Sandy—and hurricanes in general? A
lot, as it turns out. Here's what we know:

1. Sea level rise is making hurricanes more damaging—and Sandy is just the beginning. The most direct and undeniable way that global warming worsened Sandy is through sea level rise. According to
climate researcher Ben Strauss of Climate Central, sea level in New
York Harbor is 15 inches higher today than it was in 1880, and of those
15 inches, 8 are due to global warming's influence (the melting of
land-based ice, and the thermal expansion of seawater as it warms). And
that matters: For every inch of sea level rise, an estimated 6,000 additional people were impacted by Sandy who wouldn't have been otherwise. That's why Strauss told me last year, in the wake of the storm, that there is "100 percent certainty that sea level rise made this worse. Period." Read More

A supervolcano blasting Yellowstone National Park to smithereens may
capture the imagination, but the region's real risk comes from
earthquakes, researchers reported in Denver on Sunday (Oct. 27) at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.

"The pervasive hazard in Yellowstone is earthquakes," said
Robert Smith, a seismologist at the University of Utah. "They are the
killer events."
Smith and his collaborators analyzed 4,520 earthquakes in and
around Yellowstone that struck between 1985 and 2013. Their goal: Create
the best picture ever of the magma chamber hidden beneath the park's
colorful hot springs and spectacular geysers. A side benefit was a
better view of the seismic risk from nearby faults.
One of these faults triggered the most destructive earthquake ever
recorded in the Rocky Mountains — the deadly magnitude-7.3 Hebgen Lake
quake in 1959. The epicenter was about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of
West Yellowstone.
Smith said the probability of another magnitude-7 or larger
earthquake on one of the major faults near Yellowstone is 0.125 percent.
The number reflects the chance an earthquake will occur in any given
year, based on past records. Read More

Blue Mountains, Australia (CNN) -- More than 70
wildfires -- including 29 that are uncontained -- are raging across a
wide swath of Australia's most populous state, now threatening the
western suburbs of Sydney, authorities said Wednesday.

"It's only a matter of
hours before we see a flare-up in fire activity and a breach of these
tenuous containment strategies," said Shane Fitzsimmons, Rural Fire
Service (RFS) commissioner, in Sydney earlier in the day.

The wildfires stretch
along a nearly 1,000-mile line in New South Wales, from the far north of
the state south of Brisbane -- which lies just across the Queensland
border -- to east of Canberra, the country's federal capital. Fires in
the Blue Mountain range west of Sydney are a particular worry as rough
terrain has impeded firefighting efforts.

"If our strategies don't
work and weather materializes tomorrow that is forecast ... it could be
absolutely devastating," said Rural Fire Service (RFS) Deputy
Commissioner Rob Rogers in New South Wales on Tuesday. "We lost a couple
hundred homes the other day -- we could get worse losses than that."
Wednesday is expected to be "about as bad as it gets," added
Fitzsimmons. Read More

Climate Condition contribute to more extreme weather events: The controversy started by a senior UN officials comments that there is a
link between climate change and the devastating bushfires in eastern
Australia continues. Read More

Seattle is full of slope-side real estate with gorgeous views of Lake
Washington and Puget Sound. It's also primed for possible disaster,
thanks to these very same hilly areas that could hurtle into the water
during the next big earthquake.
When a quake strikes, it's easy to focus on the major structural damage
that directly results from the shaking. But a secondary hazard,
landslides, can be just as problematic in terms of property damage and
the hampering of rescue efforts. With all its hills, Seattle is
practically begging for a quake-triggered landslide-fest: The subsequent
battering of the city's infrastructure would be "extensive and
potentially devastating," with possibly more than 8,000 buildings in
landslide-danger zones, according to new study coauthored by the University of Washington's Kate Allstadt.
Allstadt, a doctoral student and duty seismologist with the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network,
is part of what's likely the most extensive exploration of Seattle's
incipient landslides. She got involved in the research after moving to
town and noticing the sheer abundance of steep inclines – not a great
thing considering the city sits right atop the Seattle Fault, thought to be responsible for an estimated 7.5 magnitude quake that occurred around 900 A.D.
"I thought, I wonder what would happen to these slopes if there's an earthquake on this fault or any nearby?"
she says. "Nobody's really studied in a quantitative way just how much
landsliding there would be. I thought that would be important, because
we need to prepare." Read More

Experts Warn: Major Earthquake Could Hit Israel At Any Time: After four earthquakes shake Israel in one week, experts debate whether the big one is imminent. Read More

Last Sunday, Israel
experienced two earthquakes, raising fears that a significant geological
event could occur. Sunday’s quakes followed two others, one on Saturday
morning and another on Thursday evening. Although they were all minor
in scope, some experts warn that a major earthquake may hit the region
in the near future, capable of inflicting fatalities and significant
property damage.

Last Sunday, Israel
experienced two earthquakes, raising fears that a significant geological
event could occur. Sunday’s quakes followed two others, one on Saturday
morning and another on Thursday evening. Although they were all minor
in scope, some experts warn that a major earthquake may hit the region
in the near future, capable of inflicting fatalities and significant
property damage.

by Justin Gillis, New York Times
If greenhouse emissions continue their steady escalation, temperatures
across most of the earth will rise to levels with no recorded precedent
by the middle of this century, researchers said Wednesday.

Scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa calculated that by
2047, plus or minus five years, the average temperatures in each year
will be hotter across most parts of the planet than they had been at
those locations in any year between 1860 and 2005.

To put it another way, for a given geographic area, “the coldest year in
the future will be warmer than the hottest year in the past,” said Camilo Mora, the lead scientist on a paper published in the journal Nature.

Unprecedented climates will arrive even sooner in the tropics, Dr.
Mora’s group predicts, putting increasing stress on human societies
there, on the coral reefs that supply millions of people with fish, and
on the world’s greatest forests.

“Go back in your life to think about the hottest, most traumatic event
you have experienced,” Dr. Mora said in an interview. “What we’re saying
is that very soon, that event is going to become the norm.”

The research comes with caveats. It is based on climate models,
huge computer programs that attempt to reproduce the physics of the
climate system and forecast the future response to greenhouse gases.
Though they are the best tools available, these models contain
acknowledged problems, and no one is sure how accurate they will prove
to be at peering many decades ahead. Read More

Earth's magnetic field shields the planet from charged particles
streaming from the sun, keeping it from becoming a barren, Mars-like
rock. For more than 300 years, scientists have recorded a
westward-drifting feature in the field that models have been unable to
explain.
By relying on insights gleaned from previous work, as
well as data collected over nearly four centuries, an international team
of scientists has been able to provide a model that accounts for the
western drift of the magnetic field on one side of the planet.
"People have tried various configurations regarding the state of the
core-mantle alignment," lead author Julien Aubert, of the Université
Paris Diderot in France, told SPACE.com in an email."The ingredients
were here, but they were never put in the right configuration, in
particular for reproducing the geomagnetic westward drift."Driven by temperature and gravity
The magnetic field that encases the planet is caused by interactions deep inside Earth's core.
The inner core is solid, while the outer core features flowing liquid
iron, which generates currents that in turn lead to magnetic fields.
The field surrounding the Earth changes over time, with shifts
occurring most prominently in low latitudes in the Western Hemisphere.
The fast-moving magnetic patches that occur near the equator drift
approximately 10 miles (20 kilometers) per year. These changes are
driven by intense regions of activity in the core, the cause of which
scientists have been at a loss to explain. Read More

I have
written before about Lori, her insights about the future and her work at her
company, I AM America, which prints and distributes her channeled information
from the Ascended Masters. Her latest work is “A Teacher Appears” (as in, “when
the student is ready…”), she just wasn’t sure she was quite ready for him when
he appeared out of thin air at the end of her bed so long ago.

This work
covers lessons learned both personally and from the Masters dictation from when
she first began her journey as a housewife on a farm in Idaho in the 1980’s with
no knowledge of New Age or spiritual subjects, nor any desire to go there.

This book
is information that was transcribed early on as part of the voluminous amount of
channelings that were received, but has not been published until now.

I like this
book because she has allowed me into her subjective feelings – the fears, the
joys, the uncertainty -- about what she was going through as she made the leap
of faith that brought her into contact with the Masters and started her
spiritual work here with Master St. Germain (and many others). Or should I say,
re-started that work. For as we see, in previous lives, she and St. Germain had
been working together for a long time in order for her to finally bring forth
the culmination of their agreement in the work she is doing now.

Although
the Masters are powerful spiritual beings, they can only do so much in our free
will, 3D world. They need us as much as we need them, but each must ask for
help from the other. It becomes a partnership where we raise our energy a
little higher and they come a little closer so that we can meet and be of
service to one another.

During the
course of Lori’s “initiations”, we learn many things. There are 51 small
chapters, each giving some simplified teachings from the Masters as well as
background information on the earth changes, the future, the Golden Cities
(there are 51 throughout the world, 5 in the USA), about devices from future
technology (such as the “Archtometer” which measures shifting of the Earth) and
the utilization of crystal energies during the “Time of Changes”.

St.Germain
says that the Earth has gone through a change like this two other times –
during Atlantis (about 10,000 -12,000 year ago) and once for a civilization
preceding Lemuria ( before Atlantis). We are in this cycle again, however this
time there is a grand experiment going on that has never been tried before.
This time will be different than any shifts that have happened, as there will
be an elevation of spiritual Light that will allow us and the earth to take a
leap in consciousness. We are not only shifting in a physical way, we are
shifting in our overall vibratory rate, as is the planet herself. Read More

(See Video Above)
A video released by NASA
on Friday shows how changing climate will impact Earth by 2099, when
alarming changes in temperature and rainfall patterns are expected to
alter the topography of our planet.
New data visualizations from NASA’s Center for Climate Simulation and Scientific Visualization Studio at Goddard Space Flight Center,
based on its models for climate and weather trends, depicts that
climate conditions could rapidly change through the year 2099.
NASA predicts that if current rate of increase in green gas emissions
continue, it could have drastic impact on Earth, with the global
temperature and precipitation patterns changing at a faster pace,
causing irreversible changes in Earth’s topography.
According to NASA’s projections, temperature could reach such highs
by mid-century that would lead to meltdowns of Arctic ice, increase sea
levels, while dry up inland water sources in several regions. Rainfall
patterns also could change causing changes in the water cycles with some
areas getting more wetter and other regions witnessing increased dry
spells.NASA video
demonstrates four possible scenarios of how Earth’s climate could
change by 2099, based on four different levels of carbon dioxide
emissions. Read More

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Author and mystic Lori Toye has written fourteen books dealing with geographic changes in the Earth and how we can respond to these changes to create peace and harmony and advance our own spiritual growth and self-development. Topics include "Building the Seamless Garment - Revealing the Secret Teachings of Ascension and the Golden Cities," a book filled with lessons that focus on the hidden teachings of Ascension - the spiritual and mental process and the spiritual techniques that can free us from the confines of the need to reincarnate. Toye also created the first Earth Changes Map in 1989 delineating future changes to the Earth's geography, as well as the I AM America Atlas, a full color atlas of the I AM America Maps, featuring many new maps and prophecies. Originally published more than 20 years ago before public awareness of the serious environmental issues of Global Warming and Climate Change, Lori has been featured on NBC, FOX, UPN, London's Carlton Television, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.